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Developed in the 1980s, DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) was a two tier RPC middleware integrated integrated into most major UNIX vendor’s OS. Many secure applications were developed with this middleware technology. Historically DCE complexity has forced IT organizations to make hard choices between existing and valuable resources developed in DCE — and the benefits of starting over in newer technologies.

The use of DCE Middleware is still prevalent in spite of IBM’s announcements of dropping support. Many companies have developed products and services for their customers using the popularly known DCE middleware. Now days companies using DCE are turning to integrators to rewrite these applications, but total re-writes are very costly and time consuming.

DCE Modernization

Modernization of DCE includes moving and/or migrating applications based on heritage technologies into contemporary technologies, platforms and languages. In addition, DCE Modernization includes the capture, reuse and redeployment of existing DCE business rules as services in services oriented and model driven architectures.

DCE Modernization Benefits

DCE Modernization offers alternatives to development and package deployment projects and also provides ways to augment replacement initiatives through the reuse and migration of existing data and application architectures. DCE Modernization:

• Streamlines the time and costs associated with eliminating or migrating obsolete DCE technologies and platforms.
• Lowers the risks associated with deploying DCE replacement systems based on the reuse of proven functionality extracted from existing systems.
• Reduces the costs and timeframes of migrating data into target data architectures, relational databases and package environments while improving the integrity of the end result.
• Supports business unit consolidation, mergers and acquisition initiatives through data and application architecture consolidation and integration.
• Enables the redeployment of proven, stable DCE functionality in SOA, model driven and other agile architectures

Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by webmaster
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